Monday, August 08, 2016

The mystery flower

I give up. After two days of off-and-on looking, the identity of this lovely little plant --- there are two blooming now on the museum grounds --- eludes me.

I've used every combination of search terms I could think of, looking for a name. Made a special trip yesterday afternoon to see if I'd missed a label (chief gardener Kay usually identifies her plants). Then emergency-messaged Kay herself. She can't remember.

It's not something anyone has intentionally planted and has emerged in unlikely places --- a crack in a stone retaining wall; in an especially arid spot where only succulents thrive.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't devote an entire blog post to a single plant --- but this is a situation that's getting serious. Help!

Postscript: Jill Beebout and Suzann Seifert win the prizes (good will only --- sorry). It's variegated Euphorbia or Snow on the Mountain.

About that danged blogger

1. Southern Iowan. Who can measure the importance of place? 2. Queer, cranky and getting older. 3. Vietnam veteran. 4. Certified skeptic: Secular humanist with a Lutheran and Unitarian Universalist past and Episcopalian leanings. My life, as does everyone else's, involves living contradictions with as much grace as possible.